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Telling me a thing one day and out the other is one of hers.

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  1. adjective Being the remaining one of two or more: the other ear.
  2. adjective Being the remaining ones of several: His other books are still in storage.
  3. adjective Different from that or those implied or specified: Any other person would tell the truth.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English ōther; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English other, from Anglo-Saxon ōther (in inflexion often syncopated ōthr-) = Old Saxon ōthar, ōdhar, ōdher, ādhar, andar = OFries. other, oder, or, also ander = Middle Dutch, Dutch ander = Middle Low German Low German ander = Old High German andar, ander, Middle High German G. ander = Icelandic annarr = Swedish annan = Danish anden = Gothic (Moesogothic) anthar, other, second, different, = Latin alter (for *anter? — assimilated to alius, other: see else) (later Italian altro = Spanish otro = Portuguese outro = Provencal altre, autre = Old French altre, autre, French autre), other, = Old Bulgarian vŭtorŭ = Bohemian úterý = Polish wtory = Russian vtorno-, second, = Lithuanian antras = Lettish ōtrs = Old Prussian antars = Sanskrit antara, anyatara, other; with comparative suffix -ther = L. -ter = Greek -τερος, etc., from a base seen in Old Bulgarian onŭ = Servian Bohemian Polish on = Russian onŭ, he, that, = Sanskrit anya, *ana, that.
  2. from Middle English other; from other, a.
  3. Middle English, also outher, owther; a variant of either, q. v.
  4. Middle English, also outher, etc.; a variant of either, and the fuller form of or: see either and or.
 

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